Word: swathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Social Swath. The Chinese are hardly unhappy about all the attention. Huang Hua is frequently seen around the capital, riding in his chauffeur-driven Mercedes or strolling across Ottawa's Parliament Hill. This week Huang sets out on a week's tour that will take him to all ten of Canada's provinces...
Ottawa's diplomatic social season has barely begun, but the Chinese have already cut a considerable swath. Nearly 400 guests came to an embassy bash last month to meet the ambassador and his petite wife Ho Li-liang, a severely handsome woman in a man-tailored, dark blue suit and glossy black pumps. Two weeks ago, 350 turned out for the embassy's lavish National Day reception...
...white man's burden, which is probably why the film is presented as a flashback told by nobody in particular. The film supports Lawrence, and does not drown his military or political achievements for the sake of bombast. But there is still a credibility gap-without cutting a broader swath of history and defining its themes more clearly in that context, we cannot accept them. Lean's claim that he only worked to advance the story rather than concentrate on its atmosphere merely attests to the story's limitations...
Campbell was in the center of the main tornado that tore a half-mile-wide swath through Inverness. For perhaps a minute, he sat in suspended motion as much of the world about him caved in or exploded outward. "One house suddenly came apart like a dollhouse," he recalls. "The roof flew up, the walls spread out, and I could see two elderly persons, colored folks, crouched inside. Then everything sprang right back on top of them and they disappeared...
Wobbling Earth. Strangely enough, last week's tremors did not occur along the San Andreas fault or any of the active faults that are associated with it. They originated some distance away, along a swath roughly 20 miles long, running at approximately right angles to the big fault. It is in this area that the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles, meet the San Fernando Valley. Judging by ruptures in this surface and readings from their instruments, scientists concluded that the mountains had either pushed a few feet over the valley, or that the valley had thrust underneath...